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1 Samuel

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1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Is­rael, 2 Saul chose him three thou­sand men of Is­rael; whereof two thou­sand were with Saul in Mich­mash and in mount Bethel, and a thou­sand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Ben­jamin: and the rest of the peo­ple he sent ev­ery man to his tent. 3 And Jonathan smote the gar­ri­son of the Philistines that was in Ge­ba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trum­pet through­out all the land, say­ing, Let the He­brews hear. 4 And all Is­rael heard say that Saul had smit­ten a gar­ri­son of the Philistines, and that Is­rael also was had in abom­i­na­tion with the Philistines. And the peo­ple were called to­geth­er af­ter Saul to Gil­gal. 5 And the Philistines gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er to fight with Is­rael, thir­ty thou­sand char­i­ots, and six thou­sand horse­men, and peo­ple as the sand which is on the sea shore in mul­ti­tude: and they came up, and pitched in Mich­mash, east­ward from Bethaven. 6 When the men of Is­rael saw that they were in a strait, (for the peo­ple were dis­tressed, ) then the peo­ple did hide them­selves in caves, and in thick­ets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. 7 And ­some of the He­brews went over Jor­dan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gil­gal, and all the peo­ple fol­lowed him trem­bling. 8 And he tar­ried sev­en days, ac­cord­ing to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gil­gal; and the peo­ple were scat­tered from him. 9 And Saul said, Bring hith­er a burnt of­fer­ing to me, and peace of­fer­ings. And he of­fered the burnt of­fer­ing. 10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of of­fer­ing the burnt of­fer­ing, be­hold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. 11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Be­cause I saw that the peo­ple were scat­tered from me, and that thou camest not with­in the days ap­point­ed, and that the Philistines gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er at Mich­mash; 12 There­fore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gil­gal, and I have not made sup­pli­ca­tion unto the LORD: I forced my­self there­fore, and of­fered a burnt of­fer­ing. 13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done fool­ish­ly: thou hast not kept the com­mand­ment of the LORD thy God, which he com­mand­ed thee: for now would the LORD have es­tab­lished thy king­dom upon Is­rael for ev­er. 14 But now thy king­dom shall not con­tin­ue: the LORD hath sought him a man af­ter his own heart, and the LORD hath com­mand­ed him ­to be cap­tain over his peo­ple, be­cause thou hast not kept that which the LORD com­mand­ed thee. 15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gil­gal unto Gibeah of Ben­jamin. And Saul num­bered the peo­ple that were pre­sent with him, about six hun­dred men. 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the peo­ple that were pre­sent with them, abode in Gibeah of Ben­jamin: but the Philistines en­camped in Mich­mash. 17 And the spoil­ers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three com­pa­nies: one com­pa­ny turned unto the way that lead­eth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: 18 And an­oth­er com­pa­ny turned the way to Beth­horon: and an­oth­er com­pa­ny turned to the way of the bor­der that looketh to the val­ley of Ze­boim to­ward the wilder­ness. 19 Now there was no smith found through­out all the land of Is­rael: for the Philistines said, Lest the He­brews make them swords or spears: 20 But all the Is­raelites went down to the Philistines, to sharp­en ev­ery man his share, and his coul­ter, and his axe, and his mat­tock. 21 Yet they had a file for the mat­tocks, and for the coul­ters, and for the forks, and for the ax­es, and to sharp­en the goads. 22 So it came to pass in the day of bat­tle, that there was nei­ther sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the peo­ple that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. 23 And the gar­ri­son of the Philistines went out to the pas­sage of Mich­mash.